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Perl seems to have died down just about everywhere. I've not used it professionally or seen it in use in well over a decade. It's so expressive and has so many
by city41 5y ago
Perl seems to have died down just about everywhere. I've not used it professionally or seen it in use in well over a decade. It's so expressive and has so many ways to do things that reading other people's Perl can be challenging. I think this contributed to its downfall. And "other people" can often mean "yourself in six months" too.
- scop 5y ago> And "other people" can often mean "yourself in six months" too. Amen to this point. I am currently the single engineer in a small software biz and after the last engineer left I thought to myself "well, at least I won't have to decipher his code anymore"...needless to say, I've been shocked by how much time I can spend on a system only to revisit it within a year and have little to no memory of how or why I did something a certain way!